Hundreds of lives were saved between July 2014 and July 2015 thanks to private citizens using legally-owned guns to take down criminals, this according to an analysis from the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), which released its report yesterday just hours after President Barack Obama announced a new executive order on gun control.

The DCNF analyzed 195 random incidents where gun owners used a firearm to save their lives and the lives of others, and found that guns saved at least 283 potential victims. The incidents range from a man protecting his family from a group of thugs to a gun-toting grandmother who scared off a burglar in her living room.

In 60 of those cases, the gun wonder was the only possible victim. In 43 separate cases, there were two potential victims. In nine cases, there were three victims and in nine additional cases there were four or more victims. In 74 cases, the number of potential victims is unknown, but assumed to be at least one.

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